#valuable

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance. ↗

— Joseph Brodsky

#insignificance #language #lesson #life #most

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable. ↗

— Anatole Broyard

#book #i #like #makes #more

You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence. ↗

— Octavia Butler

#crap #get #good #gradually #i

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#generation #instructs #man #more #nobler

The ideology of the Smashing Pumpkins was ultimately more valuable than the music of the Smashing Pumpkins. That's what critics can't put their finger on. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#finger #ideology #more #music #pumpkins

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. ↗

— Diogenes

#expression #favorite #man #most #spend

The conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it. ↗

— Ariel Durant

#conservative #proposes #radical #resists #valuable

I will for ever, at all hazards, assert the dignity, independence, and integrity of the English bar; without which, impartial justice, the most valuable part of the English constitution, can have no existence. ↗

— Thomas Erskine

#bar #constitution #dignity #english #ever

Once we start collecting, the more you have, the more it gets valuable and that will stop us from responding to the present and taking on new ideas what the artists are doing now. ↗

— David Elliott

#collecting #doing #gets #ideas #more

You may count on Mexico's support, since your commitment to the noblest causes of mankind and your vast experience are and will be invaluable in enabling us, together, to achieve a better world. ↗

— Vicente Fox

#better #better world #causes #commitment #count